May 11, 2014 Awake in Real Time: Coffee-induced Meditations and Journal Entries
Awaiting the Doorbell
©May 11th, 2014
By Vijaya Sundaram
Shopping disgusts me
Yet I do it.
Not all the time, mind you.
And usually, it’s for things I need.
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth
And a buzz in my brain
As if I vomited out my soul
And helped a corporation’s gain.
I want to not need things
I want to not want things
I want to be unpressured.
I want … to be delivered.
Not packaged, not sealed,
Not signed, just
Delivered
Unto myself,
Sans frills,
Sans frippery,
Sans foolishness,
Sans forgetfulness
Sans flirtation
Sans filigree
Sans fancies
Sans fantasy.
Just plain,
Unbowed,
Unadorned,
Unashamed
Unapologetic
Undefeated
Untired
Alive and awake
In joy and in eternal
Leap mode. And so,
I await the doorbell.
Tags: #Original Poetry, #Shopping, Deliverance, deliverance from needs, Delivery, doorbell, nirvana
May 11, 2014 Parenting/ Home-schooling / Family Music and other Notes
Repletion Mode — An Other’s Day Poem
©May 11th, 2014
By Vijaya Sundaram
Mother Day yawns
I lie in bed.
Birds unfold the day.
I lie in bed.
Sounds of household peeling.
I lie in bed.
Sunshine splintering.
I lie in bed.
Cup of coffee in husband’s hand.
Bounce of daughter and dog on bed.
I arise, a sea creature,
From torpid dreams.
Tiredness rears over me
I drown in enervation.
Yet, slowly, slowly,
Depletion mode gives way,
Slowly getting replete again,
Slowly, slowly now.
Oh, so slowly.
I sit up and hug my child.
It’s Other’s Day.
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Tags: #Daughter, #Dog, #Original Poetry, completion, husband, Mother's Day